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From: jfw@proteon.com (John Woods)
Subject: Re: No employment available for mathematician/genius/programmer(LISP)
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markw@ncube.com (Mark Wiley) writes:
>In article <ortD3E8IH.CG1@netcom.com> ort@netcom.com (David Oertel) writes:
>>	no.  maybe i'm in denial, but i refuse to believe that getting mired
>>	in credit-card debt is his only alternative to homelessness.  maybe
>>	he simply needs to take a grubby sys admin or QA job until he can
>>	find something that leverages his brains.
>Thoes of us that have done both system administration and QA (in addition to
>system maintenance and new product development :-), really appreciate those
>kind words Dave, its people like you that make the effort worth while (NOT).

Perhaps the associativity in his statement was not "grubby { {sys admin or QA}
job}" but rather was "{{grubby sys admin} or QA} job".  A good grubby sys
admin can command a high price these days.

:-)
